The Last Remaining Manufacturers
As technology wanes, business based on it will decline until you’re left with only a handful of companies. Then there’s usually a period
Roman Kudryashov
Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays.
Consider the threat once posed by the calculator to homework that involved arithmetic. In some cases, the point of such exercises is to learn arithmetic
Laundering Code with Github Copilot
As the article concludes, "is this AI that generates code, or AI that searches the web for open source code that might be suitable?
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
To many folks, Excel is their operating system. It's not just spreadsheet software, but data collection, analysis, visualization, reporting, and processing. But the
Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
Interesting from the perspective of error-handling and cloud-services as fundamental communications infrastructure:
If I intentionally set out to build a horrible user experience I’m
A new way to think about your favorite game’s code
It’s surprisingly hard to archive a video game. Cartridges decay, eventually; discs become unreadable as their plastic degrades. Source codes are lost to corporate
A Ferrari That Bricks Itself
Dude comes straight from the dealership for a car-seat installation, but halfway through the car disables itself (I’m guessing some anti-tamper safeguard). Hilariously, the
Land Rover’s New $83,000 Defender Is an Alpha Male Still in Beta
The bigger concern is the electronics. New owners have complained about minor, but annoying, glitches: a clock that works only intermittently, keyless entry failure, irregularities
025 - On AdTech & Awful Advertising UIs
This isn’t an error state per se. But, it does highlight a form of extremely poor design that might as well be an error.
Code Rot and Data Biases in Healthcare Apps
On code rot and data bias in health devices: https://apple.news/A8IvTES9NRPWijHhtnUG89Q
Vaughan was spurred into action when the continuous glucose monitor (CGM) function
"The Algorithm" is an Excuse
Stanford Health Care apologized Friday for a plan that left nearly all of its young front-line doctors out of the first round of coronavirus vaccinations.
A Trip to the Airport / Digitized Wayfinding
Airports are logistics-centric data fiends. Flights are constantly being routed and rerouted. The showcase of data is an integral part of the experience.
So when screen critical to the traveler's experience fail, you take notice. And when it happens over and over…